Marie Curie (1867 - 1934)

Marie Skłodowska Curie was a Polish and naturalized-French physicist and chemist who conducted pioneering research on radioactivity. She was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, the first person and only woman to win twice, the only person to win a Nobel Prize in two different sciences, and was part of the Curie family legacy of five Nobel Prizes. Her achievements included the development of the theory of radioactivity (a term that she coined), techniques for isolating radioactive isotopes, and the discovery of two elements, polonium and radium. Under her direction, the world's first studies into the treatment of neoplasms were conducted using radioactive isotopes. She founded the Curie Institutes in Paris and in Warsaw, which remain major centres of medical research today. During World War I she developed mobile radiography units to provide X-ray services to field hospitals.- source: Wikipedia

Known for
Radioactivity Polonium Radium

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A number of biographies are devoted to her. In 1938 her daughter, Ève Curie, published Madame Curie. In 1987 Françoise Giroud wrote Marie Curie: A Life. In 2005 Barbara Goldsmith wrote Obsessive Genius: The Inner World of Marie Curie. In 2011 Lauren Redniss published Radioactive: Marie and Pierre Curie, a Tale of Love and Fallout.

Greer Garson and Walter Pidgeon starred in the 1943 U.S. Oscar-nominated film, Madame Curie, based on her life. In 1997, a French film about Pierre and Marie Curie was released, Les Palmes de M. Schutz, adapted from a play of the same name.

Manya: The Living History of Marie Curie (2014), a one-woman show performed by Susan Marie Frontczak

False Assumptions (2013), a play by Lawrence Aronovitch about the life of Curie, in which the ghosts of three other women scientists observe events in her life, including Rosalind Franklin, pioneer in DNA discovery